17-year-old Coco Gauff will miss the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19

It’s already dumb, and, we expect, about to get dumber:

what a dumb Olympics this is going to be. https://t.co/Ak88Md9wiZ

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) July 18, 2021

So far, the only information comes from Gauff’s social media feed, so we don’t know if she’s symptomatic or not or if she was vaccinated:

Is she symptomatic? Why can’t she compete if she feels OK? It’s tennis – she doesn’t have to be close to anyone. https://t.co/OZjkQ6DYwg

— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) July 18, 2021

And, from the looks of it, there will be many more athletes that won’t be able to compete because of it:

A thread on all the stuff that’s not going very well so far at the Olympics:

1/ Positive cases and contact tracing are taking down athletes. Coco Gauff out of the tennis, two South African footballers also positive as well as the SA sevens rugby coach

— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) July 18, 2021

2/ Russian men’s quadruple sculls have pulled out because they don’t have good enough reserves. A group of British gymnasts are isolating after a case on their flight

— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) July 18, 2021

3/ USA Basketball has been hit by covid measures – Bradley Beal is out of the games and other players have also been affected.

— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) July 18, 2021

4/ Multiple officials are testing positive – including a Nigerian 60 year old who is now in hospital and a South Korean IOC member who is now having to isolate for 14 days. He was double vaccinated.

— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) July 18, 2021

And we’re seeing complaints about mask-wearing:

7/ All this, and the conditions for competing here increasingly difficult. It’s close to 100 degrees most days, which makes wearing masks very uncomfortable.

— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) July 18, 2021

Sigh.

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